higher up in the corporate ladder, perks given out at the whim of some-
one higher up.
Eleventh House: Friends, associations, organizations, funding bodies of
government agencies, hopes and wishes.
Twelfth House: Witchcraft, hidden enemies, imprisonment, all institu-
tions of confinement, hospitals, self-undoing, large animals (horses,
elephants, whales).
Having defined querent and quesited, the astrologer has three steps left. First,
there may be specific rules that apply to the particular type of question. For example,
there are specific rules for determining whether an object is lost or stolen that are con-
siderably more complex than simply determining the house rulership of the object.
Second, the astrologer needs to decide whether the question is resolved
through perfection or emplacement. A perfection horary requires that some sort of
action(s) or event(s) happen in order for the result to be brought about. An emplace-
ment horary relies purely on where the planets are positioned at the time of the
horary, not where they will be sometime later. Lost items, and missing people or ani-
mal horaries are the emplacement type horaries. Most other horary questions require
the significators’ perfection.
The most common perfection is an approaching aspect of the querent’s planet
to the planet symbolizing the quesited. Usually, only the ptolemaic aspects (conjunc-
tion, sextile, square, trine, and opposition) are allowed, but differing horary systems
may include the parallel or quincunx. In a perfection, the faster-moving body must
catch up to the slower, generally, without the planets changing sign.
Many authors also allow for perfection by mutual reception between the signi-
ficators of the querent and quesited.
The next most common means of perfection is translation. In translation, a
fast-moving body (generally the Moon, but occasionally Venus or Mercury) separates
from one of the significators, and applies to the other one.
There is one very rare means of translation, which is very powerful: collection,
which occurs when the faster moving body is separating from the slower moving one,
but both are applying to yet a slower body. The slowest one then “collects” the other
two.
In addition to these means of achieving perfection, there are also other ways to
thwart a perfection. These include:
Refranation: In this case, the two bodies are moving toward perfection,
but before the aspect becomes exact, the faster-moving body turns ret-
rograde, and the aspect never happens until after that body goes direct
again, if at all in the same sign. This is one of the most frustrating sce-
narios, because everything appears to be moving in the right direction
until things suddenly veer off.
Frustration: In this case, again the significators appear to be moving to
perfection, but this time the slower-moving planet achieves a partileTHEASTROLOGYBOOK [327]
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